Word Origin & History

talk late 15c., "speech, discourse, conversation," from talk (v.). Meaning "informal lecture or address" is from 1859. Talk of the town first recorded 1620s. Talk show first recorded 1965; talk radio is from 1985.

Example Sentences for talked

Again he recurred to his early years, and talked fondly of his wife and children.

They talked until late into the night of what he should "lay out" to do.

I wish we might have talked more—I'm sure—when are you leaving?

She was apt not only to know what she talked about, but she was a woman of resource, unafraid of action.

Then after she was engaged to Shepler they talked him out of it.

They had talked afterward so feverishly, as if to forget their situation.

We talked of progress; but progress, like the philosopher's stone, could not be easily attained.

But Charles Merchant was only interested in what the fellow had said and done when he talked with her.

Yet there are people, and I have talked with some of them, who remember that she was born.

As they talked Vavasor had seated himself on the fir-spoil beside her.